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Word: tween (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...middle classes in Europe. De Gaulle had a plan to reform this outmoded structure. Just as he broke the resistance of France's colonial army to end the Algerian war, he was intent on breaking the power and influence of its dominant bourgeoisie to end the chasm be tween the monied and working classes. The byword of that campaign, one of the countless phrases that passed from De Gaulle's lips and into the consciousness of all France, was participation. It soon came to mean everything from worker representation on management boards to reducing the hold of small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE FRENCH FACE MEDIOCRITY | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

Call It Hate Economically, they are the "marginal" whites who earn be tween $5,000 and $10,000 a year and represent 40% of American families. They are factory workers, storekeepers, small farmers, cab drivers, policemen, firemen, longshoremen, post al clerks, many public school teachers - and a number of the elderly. In theory, they have never been so prosperous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: TO REMEMBER FORGOTTEN AMERICA' | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...code, the result of a six-year study by a special commission of the Connecticut general assembly, reforms a number of antiquated Connecticut sex laws, some dating back to 1642. Accepting the commission's recommendation that all sexual activity be tween two consenting, mentally competent adults "is no business of the criminal law," the code eliminates adultery, homosexuality and lascivious car riage as punishable acts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Legislation: Modernizing Sex Laws | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

Elsewhere, most sexual relations out side marriage - and some within - are criminal offenses. Adultery and forni cation are commonly outlawed. Sodomy is illegal in nearly every state, even be tween spouses; New York is an ex ception that does not bar it within marriage. Until a new code goes into effect next July, a too ardent lover in Kansas can get up to five years at hard labor for successfully luring his girl friend to bed, and up to 21 years for merely trying. In Indianapolis, simply entering the motel room of a person of the opposite sex (subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Legislation: Modernizing Sex Laws | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...represents a compromise be tween West Germany's two major political parties over how to cope with the burden of the Nazi past. Arguing that the German people can only expiate their national guilt by bringing the wartime offenders to jus tice, the Socialists favored abolishing the statute of limitations on all forms of mur der, including even homicide by civilians in peacetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Closing the Loophole | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

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